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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to lock the position of widgets

When I am designing a dashboard I often find it frustrating to have everything all lined up and then I change a title or something on a widget and accidentally move it a little and have to go and check or adjust all the positioning again. It would...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Generic Error message for CAF - Reflective XSS

With recent penetration testing, the IBM security team thought that the CAF (which was enabled) was allowing Reflective XSS. After feedback from the CA developers, it was learned that the CAF is working as designed and no scripts are able to do an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AWS Dynamo DB

AWS is all over the place and people who uses the DB services are growing everyday. on the vendor list do not see any Dynamo DB support, it would only be helpful to add this to the list
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics OpenID support for SecureAuth

Our OIDC IDP vendor at officedepot is SecureAuth. Request you to consider adding support for Secureauth as well. We are currently using Cognos 11.0.9
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration